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So why not just price per track/minute, just like any other bland commodity. Discount for bulk even. You could even price it per bit, that way you pay more for quality or you could just wait for the iMusician® random hit generator which picks up on your mood and plays appropriate tunes (warning; may cause emotional feedback loop and turn you into a terminally wretched person, an iAm or iGot)

No, true but good. I'd rather have a percentage that adjusts with the price of an item than being reliant on a fixed return. Ask anyone signed to an old fashioned recording deal in the early 1960s how it felt to be on a farthing a record in the mid 1970s.

Neil MacBride, the US Attorney for the Eastern District Of Virginia, has a message for anyone who lost personal data when his office swooped on the MegaUpload operation in January: “Fuck you, I’m a fucking US Attorney and I can do whatever I fucking like”. Well, I’m paraphrasing slightly, but that’s certainly the sentiment expressed by the official in his latest court submission relating to the Mega saga

Perhaps you mean DOJ? Although, from what I've read elsewhere there was a fairly substantial portion of MU's traffic and data storage that went to deployed military personnel for videos of their escapades.

I think ours are very conscientious these days and transparent in their structure and accounting, but I had reason to query a statement sent from the Hungarian office many years back. The record had gone to number 1 there and the airplay figure was just $10.

I questioned this and was told that most radio didn't report, and - anyway - the singles chart was based on physical sales there, not airplay as it was in much of the world.

The sales figure arrived - for $10. I again questioned it and was told by the record company that the singles chart was airplay based and there was no real market for physical issues.

Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a year later without filing civil or criminal charges because of apparent recording industry delays in confirming infringement, according to court records obtained by Wired.

Mr Davison asked about the origin of intelligence used to plan the raid, raising a meeting two months earlier attended by officers from Ofcanz, the police legal section, the Crown Law Office, American authorities and the unnamed group.

Taxpayers re funding a mystery group who have input into police raids.In an open democracy the High Court and the people should be entitled to know.

And the mystery group at the Dotcom meeting is...............?

Perhaps representatives from the Office of the First Citizen John Key The First.

Iain Banks had his rock star character in Espedair St receive his Eastern Bloc royalties on a barter basis in the form of bulldozers and the like, which he stored in his deconsecrated church in Glasgow. I'm sure this is based on fact.